Blogging has not only seen an upswing in popularity in the past few years, but it has also seen a shift in focus. The majority of blogs used to be almost exclusively used like a personal journal, a place to share your thoughts with others and hash out your own opinions and feelings in a … Continue reading 5 Ways a Blog Can Increase Your Freelance Income
There are very few things that are 100% standard about ghostwriting. Really, the only constant is that you're working for more money for no credit. One of the most diverse elements of book ghostwriting is the clients. While this is pretty true for any type of freelancing work, it is magnified significantly in book ghostwriting. … Continue reading 4 Ghostwriter Client Types (And How to Work with Each)
When you work as a ghostwriter (aka without credit), building a portfolio becomes even harder as a beginner. One of the hardest parts about freelancing is landing that first job, but if that first job can't be used in a portfolio, applying to the second job will be just like applying to the first: … Continue reading How to Craft a Ghostwriter Portfolio
Spending long, fruitless hours scouring job boards for book ghostwriting work can be exhausting and discouraging. I have yet to come across a job board that has book ghostwriting as a category, which makes it very hard to do a proper quick search. If you do find a listing, you must then go through the … Continue reading 5 Things You Need to Know about Pitching Book Packagers
This past week, I've started pitching daily again. I've got two major projects wrapping up in April, and I'm starting to get a little panicky about May because of it. I probably should have gotten back into the daily pitches at the beginning of April, but hey, hindsight is 20/20 as they say. I'm feeling … Continue reading Pitch with Confidence, Land More Clients
Sheesh! This one is a long time coming. I've got to get better at posting these. This year, I started posting income reports because I have found there is a serious lack of these reports for experts in my field (namely, books), and I want to provide some hope to those of you thinking of … Continue reading How I Make Money Writing and Editing Books: Freelance Income Report March 2017
I did it! I filed my taxes for my first year of full-time freelancing, and it really wasn't so bad. When you freelance, you are a small business owner, and all the financial crap that comes with that is one of the most off-putting things about this career, at least for me. 2015's taxes weren't … Continue reading Filing Taxes as a Full-Time Freelancer
I've talked about pitching quite a bit on this blog—cold pitching and responding to project listings. However, I haven't talked much about what happens if your pitch gets a response, so I want to cover exactly what that looks like for book ghostwriting projects. (Not sure how to pitch? You may find these posts helpful: … Continue reading How to Craft a Ghostwriting Bid
Today's my birthday, so I want to do something a little more casual and talk about what I have found are the best and worst parts of working in my niche. If you're new to this blog (welcome!), I ghostwrite and copy edit books (for more detail about my niche and how I chose it, … Continue reading Pros and Cons of Working in Books as a Freelancer
What is Copy Editing? Copy editing is a bit of a gray area in the editing world. No one seems to agree 100% on what distinguishes it as the editing level/step between developmental editing (big picture edits) and proofreading (cosmetic edits). There has also been a decline in its use. Some newspapers have laid off … Continue reading Copy Editing Tips and Tricks
